Destination Normandy - - Dominique Fiquet

28/12/2024

And today’s tour closes the 2024 chapter. A bit of Omaha and a bit of Saint Michael… intense and chilly!
Thanks to all who have toured with me this year and cheers to 2025! 🥳❤️

31/10/2024

https://actu.fr/normandie/merville-franceville-plage_14409/un-mini-sous-marin-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-decouvert-sur-la-plage-de-merville-franceville_61808685.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawGQYRhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfQrkvbZPwaAxf-9k-QSP3p1Xvzle31Xrrc_uhRvlztLW4fjcdvr0207dg_aem_xF5v0CvwOz_g80X0FfrLWA

Ce mercredi 30 octobre 2024, les vestiges d’un sous-marin allemand ont été désensablés à marée basse, au niveau du parking hippique D514, sur la plage de Merville-Franceville.

24/10/2024

24/10/2024

Visiting Berneval on our Operation Jubilee tour. #1942

07/09/2024

Visit to the German Cemetery in La Cambe. Make sure you don’t miss it on our American D-Day beaches tour.

27/07/2024

Lovely day taking a group to Etretat and Honfleur

10/07/2024

Today we are with a Norwegian family visiting the Normandy battlefields.
Taking a moment to remember the Svenner, only allies ship to be sunk by the Germans the morning of D-Day.


The HNoMS Svenner was originally built by Great Britain as of November 5, 1941 under the name of HMS Shark. Launched on June 1, 1943, it was ceded to the Free Royal Naval Forces of Norway on March 18, 1944 and thus named HNoMS Svenner, named after the Norwegian archipelago.

Transferred to the English Channel as part of the preparations for Operation Neptune in the spring of 1944, the Svenner was assigned to Bombarding Force D, which on the night of June 5-6, 1944, crossed the English Channel in the direction of Sword Beach. One of the two landing beaches under British responsibility.

Alarmed by radar screens that signal a large fleet in the English Channel, the German soldiers stationed in Le Havre send fast patrol boats patrolling the area. Two E-Boats – the Jaguar and the Moewe belonging to the 5th flotilla – crossed the artificial fog set up by the Allies to camouflage the progress of the armada and discovered the warships in front of them adverse.

They fire their torpedoes and fold back very quickly without being touched by the Allies. The Svenner is hit twice: a huge explosion follows and the warship is cut in two parts before sinking at very high speed. 33 crew members (including an English sailor) are killed and 15 are wounded. The rest are recovered by es**rt and support vessels.

The HNoMS Svenner is the only allied destroyer sunk on 6 June 1944 due to the intervention of the Kriegsmarine in the English Channel.

In 2003, the anchor of the Svenner is found off Hermanville-sur-Mer: it is now displayed on the coastline and forms the memorial dedicated to the sailors who died on board.

07/07/2024

Normandy American Cemetery at Omaha Beach.

09/06/2024

Always the best tours, taking a family in the footsteps of their father/grandfather. Here following the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Battalion, company A of the 6th Airborne Division. Only 18 survivors by June 12th.
Also nice to be away from the big crowds of the 80th anniversary for a few hours.

07/06/2024

04/06/2024

1944-2024

28/05/2024

A great week in Normandy again, making history come alive and sharing so many stories, this is so much more than a job! Thank you all who trust us at .normandy ! 🌸

28/04/2024

Commissioned in 1914 as the world's most powerful weapon, the Battleship TEXAS is credited with the introduction and innovation of advances in gunnery, aviation, and radar. She is the last surviving Dreadnought as well as one of the only battleship in existence to have fought in the First and Second World Wars.
Photo of the Battleship Texas in shipyard in Galveston, Texas.

20/04/2024

Try different things, get off the beaten path. A lovely tour in the Val de Saire today, first stop at the Gatteville lighthouse, the world’s third highest. Will you climb the 365 stairs?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatteville_Lighthouse